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I will always tell the American people the truth. Pesticides and herbicides are toxic by design, engineered to kill living organisms. When we apply them across millions of acres and allow them into our food system, we put Americans at risk. Chemical manufacturers have paid tens of billions of dollars to settle cancer claims linked to their products, and many agricultural communities report elevated cancer rates and chronic disease. Unfortunately, our agricultural system depends heavily on these chemicals. The U.S. represents 4% of the world’s population, yet we use roughly 25% of its pesticides. If these inputs disappeared overnight, crop yields would fall, food prices would surge, and America would experience a massive loss of farms even beyond what we are witnessing today. The consequences would be disastrous. I support President Trump’s Executive Order to bring agricultural chemical production back to the United States and end our near-total reliance on adversarial nations. His EO protects two pillars of national strength: our defense readiness and our food supply. When hostile actors control critical inputs, they directly threaten the security of the American people. The Trump administration will secure these supply chains to eliminate that vulnerability. President Trump did not build our current system — he inherited it. For decades, Washington designed modern agriculture. Policymakers wrote farm policy, directed research dollars, structured subsidies and crop insurance, and shaped commodity markets to reward monocultures and maximum yield. Those deliberate choices locked farmers into chemical dependence and prioritized short-term output over long-term soil vitality and human health. We are now changing course — without destabilizing the food supply. Alongside @USDA @SecRollins, we are accelerating the transition to regenerative agriculture by expanding farming systems that rebuild soil, increase biodiversity, improve water retention, and reduce reliance on synthetic chemicals, including pre-harvest desiccation. We are also driving the rapid adoption of next-generation technologies, including laser-guided weed control, electrothermal and electrical systems, robotics, precision mechanical cultivation, and biological controls that replace blanket spraying with precision intervention. These solutions are not theoretical. Farmers are already putting them to work. Markets are scaling them. Now the federal government will act with urgency to expand their reach and accelerate adoption nationwide. I have met with hundreds of farmers and agricultural leaders across the country. They understand the pressures firsthand. Chemical inputs cut into margins. Chemical-resistant pests are spreading. Soil health is declining. Foreign markets are shutting out American produce. Farmers want workable alternatives, and they want policies that support transition without threatening their livelihoods. At HHS, I am leading a coordinated effort grounded in gold standard science. I am working with Secretary Rollins and @EPALeeZeldin to expedite a better future where a thriving agricultural system is less dependent on harmful chemicals. We are sharing data, coordinating strategy, and supporting farmers through a practical transition. The Make America Healthy Again agenda forces us to challenge long-standing assumptions about how we grow food, structure markets, and measure success in this country. Reform at this scale will test entrenched interests, and it will not move in a straight line. President Trump has opened the door to this debate and backed meaningful change — not only in policy, but in the national conversation about health and agriculture. American farmers stand at the center of this movement. They deserve policies rooted in rigorous science and economic reality. Our children deserve a food system that protects and strengthens their health. With President Trump’s leadership, we are securing critical supply chains, confronting the health risks embedded in our current system, and deploying every available tool to build a stronger, safer, more resilient American food supply.
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.@HHSGov has launched an investigation into a troubling incident where a midwestern school administered a federally funded vaccine to a child despite a legally recognized state exemption. If a provider ignores consent, violates an exemption, or keeps parents in the dark, HHS will act — quickly and decisively. We will use every tool we have to protect families and restore accountability.
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We expect this to be the first of many announcements over the coming years that deliver actual information to parents on underlining causes of autism and the potential paths to prevention and reversal. https://t.co/rHOnEsK7jJ
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Thank you, President Trump, for your commitment to Gold Standard Science.
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Small family farms like Steve Jarvis’ in Idaho prove that regenerative agriculture delivers—producing abundant, nutrient-dense food while restoring our soil, revitalizing the land, and strengthening communities for generations to come. https://t.co/VZ9b5lt9AK
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We reviewed the science, listened to the experts, and acted. BARDA is terminating 22 mRNA vaccine development investments because the data show these vaccines fail to protect effectively against upper respiratory infections like COVID and flu. We’re shifting that funding toward safer, broader vaccine platforms that remain effective even as viruses mutate.
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The pharma-funded mainstream media has been touting a recent study of the Danish health registry—Andersson, et al.—which purports to show that aluminum-containing vaccines are not associated with neurological injuries including autism and Asperger's. In the accompanying article, I inventory the long parade of statistical artifices that the industry-funded authors used to achieve their deceptive results. Fierce criticism from the scientific community has now forced the authors to release their supplementary data, which shows calamitous evidence of harm. These data are a devastating indictment of aluminum-containing vaccines directly contradicting the published study’s conclusions. The data show a statistically significant 67% increased risk of Asperger’s syndrome per 1 mg increase in aluminum exposure among children born between 2007 and 2018. Compared to the moderate exposure group, for every 10,000 children in the highest aluminum exposure cohort, there were: 9.7 more cases of neurodevelopmental disorder, 4.5 more cases of autistic disorder, and 8.7 more cases of the broader category of autism spectrum disorder. By exposing these dangerous deceptions, @HHSGov is signaling a new era of gold standard science, obliterated taboos, and public honesty. https://www.trialsitenews.com/a/flawed-science-bought-conclusions-the-aluminum-vaccine-study-the-media-wont-question-aaec2793
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The pharma-funded mainstream media has been touting a recent study of the Danish health registry—Andersson, et al.—which purports to show that aluminum-containing vaccines are not associated with neurological injuries including autism and Asperger's. In the accompanying article, I inventory the long parade of statistical artifices that the industry-funded authors used to achieve their deceptive results. Fierce criticism from the scientific community has now forced the authors to release their supplementary data, which shows calamitous evidence of harm. These data are a devastating indictment of aluminum-containing vaccines directly contradicting the published study’s conclusions. The data show a statistically significant 67% increased risk of Asperger’s syndrome per 1 mg increase in aluminum exposure among children born between 2007 and 2018. Compared to the moderate exposure group, for every 10,000 children in the highest aluminum exposure cohort, there were: 9.7 more cases of neurodevelopmental disorder, 4.5 more cases of autistic disorder, and 8.7 more cases of the broader category of autism spectrum disorder. By exposing these dangerous deceptions, @HHSGov is signaling a new era of gold standard science, obliterated taboos, and public honesty. https://www.trialsitenews.com/a/flawed-science-bought-conclusions-the-aluminum-vaccine-study-the-media-wont-question-aaec2793
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Our findings show that hospitals allowed the organ procurement process to begin when patients showed signs of life, and this is horrifying. The organ procurement organizations that coordinate access to transplants will be held accountable. The entire system must be fixed to ensure that every potential donor’s life is treated with the sanctity it deserves.
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Thanks for the conversation, @TuckerCarlson.
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In conformance with the pharma-financed mainstream media’s mantric ritual of dutifully parroting the propaganda tropes spoon-fed them by vaccine makers and their captive regulators, @guardian on Friday pronounced thimerosal, the ethylmercury-based vaccine preservative, “safe.” Opining under the headline, “CDC vaccine panel to review ingredient RFK Jr has targeted for removal,” The Guardian authoritatively assures: “The preservative has been deemed safe.” The Guardian did not bother to cite any peer-reviewed study. Journalists don’t seem to read those anymore. Instead, it referenced a fact check website operated by the Pharma-funded American Academy of Pediatrics. @AmerAcadPeds likewise cites no peer-reviewed study to support this claim or its equally terse assertion that “Thimerosal has been removed from all routine childhood vaccines.” This is another treadworn lie of the vaccine industry. There are high bolus doses of mercury in flu shots, which CDC recommends to pregnant women in any trimester of pregnancy and as a routine vaccine for children at six months and in every year of life. Between conception and age 18, a compliant American child today could get a cumulative load of as much as 500 mcg of ethylmercury from multidose flu shots—nearly double of what they were once getting from all the childhood vaccines put together. Now let’s look at The Guardian claim that thimerosal is safe. A quick search at the National Library of Medicine’s PubMed and PubChem websites nets thousands of studies on search terms such as: mercury neurotoxicity,[1],[2] mercury and development,[3],[4] and mercury and brain,[5],[6] and hundreds that identify thimerosal as a potent neurotoxin, carcinogen, mutagen, and endocrine disruptor. There has never been a study that proves thimerosal safe. In early 2001, Director of the FDA Office of Vaccine Research and Review, the late William Egan, admitted under oath before Congress that thimerosal’s safety had never been studied in human beings.[7],[8] I leave it to the reader to speculate as to why CDC has not performed such studies in the intervening 24 years as it dosed hundreds of millions of American children and pregnant moms with mercury-laden flu shots. Furthermore, CDC has no existing guidelines for safe exposure to ethylmercury.[9] But let’s put all that peer-reviewed science aside and just look at what the government and the vaccine industry say about thimerosal. Thimerosal’s label advises against its use during pregnancy, pointing out that thimerosal has never been shown to be safe and that it causes mutations in mammals.[10],[11] Thimerosal’s material safety data sheet (MSDS) acknowledges that thimerosal is “toxic,” has “Nervous System and Reproductive Effects,” and is “mutagenic in mammalian cells,” and that exposure to mercury in thimerosal “in utero and in children can cause mild to severe mental retardation and mild to severe motor coordination impairment.”[12] The MSDS lists a grim inventory of dozens of other devastating injuries from thimerosal exposure.[13] In 2001, the National Institute for Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) revised its thimerosal toxicity statement, warning that thimerosal is “toxic by ingestion and inhalation.”[14] The California EPA recognizes thimerosal as a reproductive toxicant in the clearest possible language: “Thimerosal dissociates in the body to ethyl mercury. The evidence for its reproductive toxicity includes severe mental retardation or malformations in human offspring who were poisoned when their mothers were exposed to ethyl mercury or thimerosal while pregnant, studies in animals demonstrating developmental toxicity after exposure to either ethyl mercury or thimerosal, and data showing interconversion to other forms of mercury that also clearly cause reproductive toxicity. The US EPA, the authoritative body relied on when mercury and mercury compounds were listed under California’s Proposition 65, currently identifies mercury and mercury compounds as causing reproductive toxicity.” The amount of ethylmercury in a flu shot is 25,000 times EPA’s safety level for drinking water.[15],[16] Federal and state laws provide that whenever expired thimerosal vaccines are disposed of, they constitute a hazardous waste. In 1998, FDA banned thimerosal in all over-the-counter products, ending its use in creams, eye medicine, and disinfectants like mercurochrome. It’s ironic that CDC still recommends its injection into babies. A 2000 study by the National Research Council found that prenatal and infant mercury exposures cause multiple impacts to basic brain development by disrupting the division and migration of neuronal cells.[17],[18],[19] According to a National Toxicology Program PowerPoint presentation entitled “Comparative Toxicity of Ethyl and Methyl Mercury”: “Ethylmercury is a neurotoxin. Infants may be more susceptible than adults. Ethylmercury exposure from vaccines (added to dietary exposures to methylmercury) probably caused neurotoxic responses (likely subtle) in some children.”[20] A 2005 NIH study commissioned by FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER) and performed by the National Toxicity Program (NTP) obliterated the industry claim that the ethylmercury in vaccines is less toxic than the heavily regulated methylmercury in fish, finding that the ethylmercury in thimerosal crosses the blood-brain barrier, lodges in the brain, and metabolizes into the most toxic form of mercury at double the rate of methylmercury.[21] A subsequent study found that this highly toxic mercury remains in the brain for over 27 years.[22] A 2000 study in Neurotoxicology by Dr. William Slikker Jr., former head of the FDA’s National Center for Toxicological Research, directly foretold the results of a 2005 NIH-funded study, reporting that “Thimerosal (sodium ethylmercurithiosalicylate) crosses the blood-brain and placental barriers and results in appreciable mercury content in tissues including brain.”[23] A 2017 NIH/CDC study links miscarriage to flu vaccines, particularly in the first trimester. Pregnant women vaccinated in the 2010/2011 and 2011/2012 flu seasons had two times greater odds of having a miscarriage within 28 days of receiving the vaccine. [24] In women who had received the H1N1 vaccine in the previous flu season, the odds of having a miscarriage within 28 days were 7.7 times greater than in women who did not receive a flu shot during their pregnancy. These results are all the more significant when considering the fact that 7 of the 13 authors on the study had potential conflicts of interest such as having received research support from GlaxoSmithKline, Sanofi, Pfizer, Merck, Novartis, Novavax, and other Big Pharma companies. One author, Frank DeStefano, was head of CDC’s immunization Safety Branch. It’s noteworthy that these authors chose not to differentiate outcomes between thimerosal-containing flu shots and those that did not contain thimerosal. Around half the flu shots available at that time contained thimerosal. On October 1, 2001, the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences Immunization Safety Review Committee (ISR) issued a report concluding that the link between thimerosal and the rise of neurological injuries in children, including autism, is “biologically plausible,”[25] and recommended the termination of all thimerosal-preserved vaccines. An entire bibliography of pharmacokinetic studies by independent scientists, prestigious universities, and prominent research institutes published in high-gravitas journals, attest to thimerosal’s powerful neurotoxicity, and show that mercury tends to accumulate (and remain for considerable periods of time, years to decades) in the brains of primates and other animals after injection of thimerosal-containing vaccines.[26] It’s worth noting just one of these, a well-known Russian study from 1977 led by Dr. N.D. Mukhtarova, found that the majority of adults exposed to much lower concentrations of ethylmercury than those currently given to American children in vaccines were still suffering neurological injury and neuropathology several years after the exposure. These symptoms included decreased vision, hearing, memory, vertigo, and pain and numbness in the hands and feet.[27],[28] The Guardian is blind and scientifically baseless repetition of empty industry assurances about thimerosal safety is yet another proof that journalists, and particularly science journalists, have now devolved into obsequious stenographers for Big Pharma.
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[1] “Mercury Neurotoxicity—Search Results—PubMed,” PubMed, accessed Jan. 28, 2025, https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=mercury+neurotoxicity. [2] “Mercury Neurotoxicity—Search Results—PubChem,” PubChem, accessed Jan. 28, 2025, https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/#query=mercury%20neurotoxicity. [3] “Mercury and Development—Search Results—PubMed,” PubMed, accessed Jan. 28, 2025, https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=mercury+and+development. [4] “Mercury and Development—Search Results—PubChem,” PubChem, accessed Jan. 28, 2025, https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/#query=mercury%20and%20development. [5] “Mercury and Brain—Search Results—PubMed,” PubMed, accessed Jan. 28, 2025, https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=mercury+and+brain. [6] “Mercury and Brain—Search Results—PubChem,” PubChem, accessed Jan. 28, 2025, https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/#query=mercury%20and%20brain. [7] Unhoodwinked, “Mercury Thimerosal in Vaccines Congressional Hearing with CDC,” YouTube, 00:00:39–00:01:21, Jan. 10, 2015, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDsdmJ8I3ks. [8] US Congress, House, Committee on Government Reform, “Truth Revealed: New Scientific Discoveries Regarding Mercury in Medicine and Autism,” 108th Cong., 2d sess., Sep. 8, 2004, https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CHRG-108hhrg98046/html/CHRG-108hhrg98046.htm. *“Mr. Burton. ‘When was that? That was done in 1929. Let’s follow up on that. In 1929, they tested this on 27 people that were dying of meningitis. All of those people died of meningitis, so they said there was no correlation between their death and the mercury in the vaccines. That is the only test that’s ever been done on thimerosal that I know of. Can you think of any other?’ Mr. Egan. ‘No, in people, no. Except for accidental exposures over time.’” [9] “Thimerosal [54-64-8], Nomination to the National Toxicology Association: Review of the Literature,” Apr. 2001, 3, https://childrenshealthdefense.org/wp-content/uploads/NTP-nonimation-Thimerosal-1.pdf. [10] “Thimerosal: Material Safety Data Sheet,” Eli Lilly, Dec. 22, 1999, https://childrenshealthdefense.org/wp-content/uploads/Lilly-thimerosal-MSDS.pdf. [11] “Thimerosal: Material Safety Data Sheet,” Spectrum Laboratory Products, Mar. 27, 2013, https://childrenshealthdefense.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Thimerosal_MSDS_Spectrum.pdf. [12] “Thimerosal: Material Safety Data Sheet,” Eli Lilly, Dec. 22, 1999, https://childrenshealthdefense.org/wp-content/uploads/Lilly-thimerosal-MSDS.pdf. [13] “Thimerosal: Material Safety Data Sheet,” Spectrum Laboratory Products, Mar. 27, 2013, https://childrenshealthdefense.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Thimerosal_MSDS_Spectrum.pdf. [14] David Kirby, Evidence of Harm: Mercury in Vaccines and the Autism Epidemic: A Medical Controversy (St. Martin’s Press, 2005), 163; “Thimerosal,” PubChem Compound CID 16684434, National Center for Biotechnology Information, accessed Apr. 30, 2025, https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/Thimerosal#section=Health-Hazards. [15] “Thimerosal in Vaccines Questions and Answers,” US Food and Drug Administration, last updated Feb. 2, 2018, https://web.archive.org/web/20191102132633/https://www.fda.gov/vaccines-blood-biologics/vaccines/thimerosal-vaccines-questions-and-answers. [16] “National Primary Drinking Water Regulations,” US Environmental Protection Agency, last updated Dec. 12, 2024, https://www.epa.gov/ground-water-and-drinking-water/national-primary-drinking-water-regulations. [17] Julia Pletz et al., “Dose-Response Analysis Indicating Time-Dependent Neurotoxicity Caused by Organic and Inorganic Mercury-Implications for Toxic Effects in the Developing Brain,” Toxicology 10, no. 347–349 (2016): 1–5, doi: 10.1016/j.tox.2016.02.006, https://childrenshealthdefense.org/wp-content/uploads/27-yr-half-life-Dose-response-analysis-neurotoxicity-caused-by-organic-and-inorganic-mercury-Implications-for-toxic-effects-in-the-developing-brain.pdf. [18] Institute of Medicine, Toxicological Effects of Methylmercury (The National Academies Press, 2000), 55–56, https://nap.nationalacademies.org/read/9899/chapter/4#55. [19] Kathryn R. Mahaffey, “Methylmercury: A New Look at the Risks,” Public Health Report, 114 no. 5 (1999): 396–399, 402–413, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1308510/pdf/pubhealthrep00025-0010.pdf. [20] National Toxicology Program and National Institute of Environmental Health Services, “Comparative Toxicity of Ethyl and Methyl Mercury,” (PowerPoint Presentation, n.d.), 15, web.archive.org/web/2015061414…. [21] Burbacher et al. 2005, “Comparison of Blood and Brain Mercury Levels in Infant Monkeys Exposed to Methylmercury or Vaccines Containing Thimerosal,” Environmental Health Perspectives 113(8):1015–21, https://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/doi/10.1289/ehp.7712. [22] James P.K. Rooney, “The Retention Time of Inorganic Mercury in the Brain — A Systematic Review of the Evidence,” Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology 274, no. 3 (2014): 425–435, doi: 10.1016/j.taap.2013.12.011, https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0041008X13005644. [23] S.A. Dobran and A. Gherman, “Interview with Dr William Slikker Jr., Ph.D., Former Director, National Center for Toxicological Research,” US Food and Drug Administration, J Med Life 15, no. 10 (2022): 1207–1208. doi: 10.25122/jml-2022-1030, https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9675311. [24] James G Donahue, “Association of spontaneous abortion with receipt of inactivated influenza vaccine containing H1N1pdm09 in 2010-11 and 2011-12,” NIH, PubMed, https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28917295/ [25] Institute of Medicine, Immunization Safety Review: Thimerosal-Containing Vaccines and Neurodevelopmental Disorders (The National Academies Press, 2001), 4, doi: 10.17226/10208, https://nap.nationalacademies.org/read/10208/chapter/2#4. [26] James P.K. Rooney, “The Retention Time of Inorganic Mercury in the Brain — A Systematic Review of the Evidence,” Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology 274, no. 3 (2014): 425–435, doi: 10.1016/j.taap.2013.12.011, https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0041008X13005644?via%3Dihub. [27] N. Mukhtarova, “Late Sequelae of Nervous System Pathology Caused by the Action of Low Concentrations of Ethyl Mercury Chloride,” Gig Tr Prof Zabol 3 (1977): 4–7, https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/323108. [28] David A. Geier et al., “A Review of Thimerosal (Merthiolate) and its Ethylmercury Breakdown Product: Specific Historical Considerations Regarding Safety and Effectiveness,” Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health, Part B, 10, no. 8 (2007): 575–596, doi: 10.1080/10937400701389875, https://doi.org/10.1080/10937400701389875. *“A total of 25 persons exposed to multiple effects of low ethyl-mercuric-chloride concentrations were subjected to a clinical examination in dynamics 1 ½ and 3 years after exposure to the compound. In investigations, clinico-physiological (EEG, Asschner-Dagnini reflexes, etc) and biochemical (catecholamines, sugar, mercury, DDT, DDE in the urine, etc) methods were employed. The pathology of the nervous system presented certain peculiarities by comparison with early period. In evidence were changes in the simpatico-adrenal system function, vascular lesions of the brain after the type of transient derangements of the cerebral circulation in the vertebro-basilar basin and angiosperms, diffuse changes in the nervous system with predominant involvement of the hypothalamic cerebral structures and in some cases psychiatric disturbances were on record. (p. 4–7).”
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Yesterday, I retired 17 members of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices or ACIP, the @CDCgov external panel that wields the grave responsibility of adding new vaccines to the recommended childhood schedule. Over the coming days, I will use this platform to announce new members to populate ACIP. None of these individuals will be ideological anti-vaxxers. They will be highly credentialed physicians and scientists who will make extremely consequential public health determinations by applying evidence-based decision-making with objectivity and common sense. I will also be tweeting examples of the historical corruption at ACIP to help the public understand why this clean sweep was necessary. The most outrageous example of ACIP’s malevolent malpractice has been its stubborn unwillingness to demand adequate safety trials before recommending new vaccines for our children. Today, a compliant American child receives between 69 and 92 routine vaccines (depending on brand/dictated dosage) from conception to 18 years of age. This is up from 11 shots in 1986. ACIP has recommended each of these additional jabs without requiring placebo-controlled trials for any of them. This means that no one can scientifically ascertain whether these products are averting more problems than they are causing. Many vaccine promoters have challenged this assertion. They are always wrong. Last week, @CNN, which has devolved into a shameless propagandist for Big Pharma, triumphantly announced that it had proof that my pronouncement that “there have been no placebo-controlled safety trials for any routine vaccines” was false. CNN gleefully proclaimed that it had found 257 placebo-controlled studies for routine vaccines. So, allow me a moment to deconstruct CNN’s claims. Warning: this post may only be sufferable for science geeks like myself. CNN is wrong. No routine injected vaccine on CDC’s schedule was licensed for children based on a placebo-controlled trial. In instances where a vaccine was used as a control, it too was never licensed based on a placebo-controlled trial. That is not conjecture. It is a fact based on FDA’s clinical trial data. (See sirillp.com/noplacebo). As Secretary of @HHSGov, acknowledging this lamentable truth is part of my promise of radical transparency. The 257 studies cited by CNN unwittingly reflect the lack of safety trials underpinning CDC’s schedule. Despite CNN’s worldwide effort to crowdsource trials with a placebo control (per @US_FDA/@CDCgov, an “inert substance”*), this list, on its face, reflects that 236 of the studies clearly did not use an “inert” safety comparator in a trial to license an injected routine vaccine for children on CDC’s schedule.** For the remaining 21 studies CNN’s list claims used an inert injection, 9 plainly did not: • RCT 251, 252 (Varivax) injected an antibiotic, neomycin – not inert. • RCT 84, 97 (HPV-16 and 16/18) injected aluminum adjuvant – not inert. • RCT 215 (Almevax) injected another vaccine – not inert. • RCT 55 (Lyophilized PedvaxHIB) injected lactose, aluminum adjuvant, and thimerosal – not inert. • RCT 197 (Salk vaccine) injected 199 solution, synthetic tissue culture, ethanol, phenol red, antibiotics, and formalin – not inert.*** • RCT 168 (Dow’s MMR) injected full vaccine minus virus, including all stabilizers, antibiotics, diluent, preservative, and buffers – not inert.**** • RCT 189 (Menveo) injected Tdap+saline or Menveo+saline – not inert. For the remaining 12 listed studies which may have had an inert injection, none was a trial relied upon to license a routine vaccine on CDC’s childhood schedule: • RCT 170, 171, 172 (MMR VaxPro), 228 (PCV11), 136 (Vaxigrip), 242 (Antitetanus), and 122 (Chinese flu shots) trialed vaccines never licensed in the U.S. nor relied upon to license a U.S. vaccine. • RCT 124 (Fluzone IIV3), 102 (WVV/SPV), and 188 (Menveo) trials occurred after each respective vaccine was licensed, hence were not relied upon for their licensure. • RCT 176 (Mumps vaccine) was not relied upon by the FDA to license the current MMR vaccine. (See MMR-II clinical trial report in link above.) • RCT 53 (PRP-D) was for a vaccine withdrawn soon after its introduction and not relied upon by the FDA to license any U.S. vaccine. While these 12 studies were not relied upon to license a routine vaccine on the CDC’s schedule, they do reflect that a placebo-controlled trial of a vaccine is possible. They also reflect what can be learned when a placebo trial is performed. For example: RCT 136 found the vaccine ineffective; RCT 122 found that “severe adverse effects occurred in 69 (0·6%, 95% CI 0·5–0·8) recipients of vaccine compared with one recipient (0·1%, 0–0·2) of placebo.”; and RCT 124 found “the rate of hospitalization was actually higher in the [Fluzone IIV3] vaccine group than in the placebo group.” The unfortunate reality is that placebo-controlled trials, however, do not occur and have not been relied upon when FDA licenses vaccines for injection during childhood or ACIP recommends the shot for addition to the CDC’s routine schedule. CNN would have reached the same conclusion had it reviewed the FDA documentation for each vaccine, instead of relying upon a random, crowd-sourced list from the internet. CNN’s list ironically proves the lack of adequate safety trials for routine childhood vaccines. It is time to stop playing games, such as CNN’s false gotcha. We have gone from 3 routine injections by age one in 1986 (the year the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act passed) to 25 routine injections by age one in 2025 (which now does not include Covid-19 vaccine). Because of the 1986 Act, every one of these products, save one, was developed by companies knowing they would almost never be liable for serious harm. During this same period, chronic diseases in our children exploded, most of which are caused by immune system dysregulation. If we are to identify the exposures that are causing this epidemic of autoimmune diseases, we need to rule out products given dozens of times to young children, specifically to modify the immune system, as potential culprits. Our infants and children deserve the best safety trials possible to keep them safe. We should care as much about every child who could be injured by one of these products as we do every child who could be injured by an infectious disease. We must protect all children. Notes: * https://www.fda.gov/media/130326/download (“Placebos, defined as inert substances with no pharmacologic activity, are commonly used in double-blind, randomized controlled clinical trials.”); https://www.fda.gov/media/71349/download (“the placebo control design, by … including a group that receives an inert treatment…”); https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/glossary/ (“Placebo: A substance or treatment that has no effect on living beings, usually used as a comparison to vaccine or medicine in clinical trials.”). ** While the above addresses injected vaccines, CNN’s cited list also includes 10 trials for rotavirus vaccine, given by oral drops, but none of these trials used saline only drops. Instead, RCT 205, 207, 208, 209, 210, 213 (Rotarix) contained dextran, sorbitol, amino acids, dulbecco’s modified eagle medium, calcium carbonate, and xanthan; RCT 211, 212 (RotaTeq) contained polysorbate 80, sucrose, citrate and phosphate; and RCT 206, 214 (Rotavac) included neomycin sulphate, kanamycin acid sulphate, trehalose, lactalbumin hydrolysate, human albumin, potassium dihydrogen orthophosphate, dipotassium hydrogen orthophosphate, and trisodium citrate dihydrate. The list also included three trials of an inhaled flu vaccine; the controls in RCT 104 were OPV+saline or LAIV (a vaccine), hence neither inert; in RCT 106 the control “consisted of normal allantoic fluid harvested from uninfected eggs stabilized with sucrose–phosphate–glutamate”; and, in RCT 109, the control was “intranasal spray of egg allantoic fluid containing sucrose-phosphate-glutamate.” *** Note that the current polio vaccines used in the U.S. are a different product than the polio vaccine developed by Jonas Salk in the 1950s—which was discontinued in the 1960s—including because the currently-used polio vaccines are “grown in vero cells, a continuous line of monkey kidney cells cultivated on microcarriers.” Hence, the Salk trial was not relied upon to license any current polio vaccine. https://www.fda.gov/media/75695/download; https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/6740101/; https://http://admin.phe-culturecollections.org.uk/media/122249/vero-cell-line-profile.pdf; https://www.atcc.org/products/all/ccl-81.aspx#characteristics. **** Dow Chemical’s MMR vaccine used different strains than any licensed U.S. MMR vaccine and also, after 14 days of safety review, this trial vaccinated all participants.
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Thank you @SeanHannity for letting me set the record straight. Bottom line, the more than 25% of people who have severe autism will never go on a date, write a poem, live independently, or have a job. We need to identify the exposures that are causing this epidemic and compensate the families of the injured. @HHSgov under my leadership, will be unrelenting in assisting affected individuals in living up to all their potentials.
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I'm very grateful to @POTUS and @DNIGabbard for lifting the veil on these documents. The assassinations of JFK, RFK and MLK, were important crossroads that changed the trajectory of our country from an idealistic and transparent democracy to a dark and secretive autocracy. The release of these documents is an important milestone in President Trump's crusade to restore America as an exemplary republic and a moral authority.
@SecKennedy - Secretary Kennedy
Instead of inspiring universal condemnation, the October 7 holocaust triggered a global wave of anti-Semitism. Ivy league campuses became a greenhouse for poison. President Trump has ordered his cabinet to use every constitutional tool to uproot this divisive weed. I’m glad Columbia has agreed to this first step and will begin to restore itself as a garden of tolerance, reason, compassion, and respect. Learn more ➡️ https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/columbia-comply-anti-semitism-task-force-preconditions-met.html
@SecKennedy - Secretary Kennedy
For far too long, ingredient manufacturers and sponsors have exploited a loophole that has allowed new ingredients and chemicals, often with unknown safety data, to be introduced into the U.S. food supply without notification to the @FDA or the public. Eliminating the GRAS loophole will provide transparency to consumers, help get our nation’s food supply back on track by ensuring that ingredients being introduced into foods are safe, and ultimately Make America Healthy Again. Learn more: https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2025/03/10/hhs-secretary-kennedy-directs-fda-explore-rulemaking-eliminate-pathway-companies-self-affirm-food-ingredients-safe.html
@plantparadise7 - Jonny Paradise 🌱
@SecKennedy @FDA Let’s make our food food again!
@SecKennedy - Secretary Kennedy
For far too long, ingredient manufacturers and sponsors have exploited a loophole that has allowed new ingredients and chemicals, often with unknown safety data, to be introduced into the U.S. food supply without notification to the @FDA or the public. Eliminating the GRAS loophole will provide transparency to consumers, help get our nation’s food supply back on track by ensuring that ingredients being introduced into foods are safe, and ultimately Make America Healthy Again. Learn more: https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2025/03/10/hhs-secretary-kennedy-directs-fda-explore-rulemaking-eliminate-pathway-companies-self-affirm-food-ingredients-safe.html
@SecKennedy - Secretary Kennedy
Anti-Semitism – like racism – is a spiritual and moral malady that sickens societies and kills people with lethalities comparable to history’s most deadly plagues. In recent years, the censorship and false narratives of woke cancel culture have transformed our great universities into greenhouses for this deadly and virulent pestilence. Making America healthy means building communities of trust and mutual respect, based on speech freedom and open debate. https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2025/03/03/hhs-ed-gsa-announce-additional-measures-end-anti-semitic-harassment-college-campuses.html
@SecKennedy - Secretary Kennedy
No stone will be left unturned in our effort to end chronic disease. The health of our children is a higher calling for all of us. Watch my message to America and join me in this effort to Make America Healthy Again. https://t.co/wj4b2h8Km4